ITALY: The Matteotti Trial

Five prisoners on trial for "willful but unpremeditated murder" spent most
of last week locked in an iron cage set up in the modest Court of
Assizes at the little town of Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. The
prisoners, who thus suffered only the normal confinement prescribed
for dangerous criminals by Italian custom, were beamed upon by
dark-eyed and fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were
dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with
especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black...